Inhumane. The Psychology of Concentration Camp Guards
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Inhumane. The Psychology of Concentration Camp Guards
14.99 €
What makes an ordinary person a mutilator and a murderer?
In 1942, the Nazis sent about 4,500 Yugoslav prisoners to concentration camps in Northern Norway. When the war ended, only one-third were still alive. Many of the horrors of the concentration camps became common knowledge. Unfathomable things were revealed. Torture. Mass extermination. The guards in these camps were not only Nazi Germans, but also ordinary Norwegians. After the war, some were convicted of abusing and killing prisoners. How was this possible? Could it be that these people were mentally abnormal, monsters? Or was it the result of abnormal social systems and relationships? How does the penal system change the psychology of the criminal? What happens to the psyche of the warden? And why do we quietly observe it? Prof. Nils Christie is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, a major contemporary criminologist widely known to the international scientific community. For many years N. Christie was Director of the Norwegian Institute of Criminology and Criminal Law and President of the Scandinavian Council of Criminology.
In 1942, the Nazis sent about 4,500 Yugoslav prisoners to concentration camps in Northern Norway. When the war ended, only one-third were still alive. Many of the horrors of the concentration camps became common knowledge. Unfathomable things were revealed. Torture. Mass extermination. The guards in these camps were not only Nazi Germans, but also ordinary Norwegians. After the war, some were convicted of abusing and killing prisoners. How was this possible? Could it be that these people were mentally abnormal, monsters? Or was it the result of abnormal social systems and relationships? How does the penal system change the psychology of the criminal? What happens to the psyche of the warden? And why do we quietly observe it? Prof. Nils Christie is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, a major contemporary criminologist widely known to the international scientific community. For many years N. Christie was Director of the Norwegian Institute of Criminology and Criminal Law and President of the Scandinavian Council of Criminology.
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